I totally agree with you PL but what of the shooting fraternity with these weapons we can only go to the ones that have a semblance of knowledge my Gunsmith has some experience with them but where else for me Beatons firearms 250 klms away verses 26 klms to my gunsmith and personnel as yourself with the training have not had the time to pass on to the public or train up correctly the people on these weapons.
Who would have a full set of production gauges I mean the full set and all the blue printed drawings yes the web has them but they have been copied off copies that were copied in the first place, there is some one some where I 'spose but people tend not to share in case some one best's them at their own game.
The SASR boys came down last year with the sole purpose at beating us at our own game and did (they have tried a few times) in the Bill King Shield, 5 man teams shot with No.4 and Mk III's un modified no T's or L 42's etc it's held over 2 days we have won the shield often but have the knowledge of the range (owned by the dept of defence anyway) but their rifles were very good indeed, ahh! to have access to SASR's Armourers......!
Anyway I just wanted to know about the indexing, but agree with you. Cheers